Digital Asset Specialist: GIS

Join the City of Flagstaff Water Services team and help support the essential infrastructure that delivers safe and reliable water, wastewater, and stormwater services to our community. In this role, you'll create and maintain GIS data, maps, and web-based applications that inform operations and decision-making across the utility. You'll gain hands-on experience with field verification, spatial analysis, enterprise GIS workflows, and modern ArcGIS technologies while contributing to projects that have a direct impact on residents every day. This is an excellent opportunity for an emerging GIS professional looking to build foundational skills within the water, wastewater, and stormwater realm. By applying to this position, you are opening yourself to the opportunity to work in a critical division program and make a significant impact on the community we serve. **POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES** - Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers - Documents work order requests and resolutions - Maintains confidentiality and security with regard to data access - Keeps pace with Water Services SCADA, Electrical and IT trends through training, periodicals and experimentation in a test environment - Attends seminars, trainings and educational opportunities to keep updated on modern procedures, industry standards and equipment, including both hardware, software, and electrical - Provides knowledge and assistance to engineers, plant operators and contractors - Undertakes discipline specific Water Services Geographic Information System (GIS) user need studies - Assists in designing, developing, maintaining, documenting, and implementing discipline specific applications and databases - Assists in manipulating Water Services GIS data to create informational reports to meet discipline specific needs - Adds, updates, deletes, and imports/exports data in a versioned environment within the Water Services’ Enterprise Geodatabases. - Assists in the maintenance of enterprise Water Services GIS data and applications - Participates in ongoing maintenance and development of the Water Services GIS database utilizing Coordinate Geometry (COGO), heads up digitizing, geodatabase data modeling and scripting - Responsible for adding, deleting, and updating features in Water Services’ GIS databases as conditions change on the ground - Communicates with Water Services Sections regarding updates to Water Services’ GIS layers - Performs research of county and city records for pertinent data that needs to be entered into the city's Water Services GIS - Participates in quality control checks of the database to determine data accuracy levels - Create content in various formats, including PDF maps and utilizing the entire Esri suite of tools such as Web Maps, Survey 123, Dashboards, Field Maps, Experience Builder, etc. to present complex GIS data in simple, easy to understand formats - Supports Water Services’ GIS systems and users within the Division by troubleshooting system problems, installation, configuration, documentation, and training - Manages small GIS projects as assigned - Participates in filling map and digital data requests from all Water Services sections, Water Services consultants and the public - Provides GIS products and solutions in response to customer requests - Participates in GIS project requests and development from all Water Services sections - Creates technical documentation of GIS procedures and metadata of Water Services GIS datasets - Performs analysis on geographic, raster and tabular data (with ESRI ArcGIS and other software) - Assists the Digital Asset Program Manager with coordinating the annual technology replacement cycle including installation and decommission of hardware/software - Assists in the educating and promotion of GIS to current and potential Water Services personnel. - Performs advanced spatial analysis and data processing for Water Services’ staff - Trains Water Services staff on GIS related…